[MyAppleMenu] Feb 21, 2010

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MyAppleMenu
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**** Pair Marries In 5th Avenue Apple Store <http://www.macnn.com/articles/10/02/20/wedding.entirely.apple.themed/>
MacNN

A pair of New York City residents claimed a first for Apple retail this week by marrying at the 5th Avenue Apple Store.

**** Apple Censorship Reaches New Level Of Stupid: Daisy Mae Pulled <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cultofmac/bFow/~3/CoyY5SIpDnw/31091>
Craig Grannell, Cult of Mac

**** Why Apple's Porn Purge Is A Smart Move <http://www.pcworld.com/article/189889/why_apples_porn_purge_is_a_smart_move.html>
Jeff Bertolucci, PC World

Apple can't afford to allow its customers -- even a vocal minority -- to gripe about so-called smut in the App Store, even if the complaints are overblown. The impression that Apple condones adult-themed material finding its way into kids' hands would no doubt hurt iPod Touch sales, and ultimately impact its iPhone and App Store business too.

**** Apple Bans 5,000 Apps For Sexual Content. Here Are The New Rules <http://venturebeat.com/2010/02/20/apple-bans-5000-apps-for-sexual-content-here-are-the-new-rules/>
Paul Boutin, Venturebeat



The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** The Surreal World Of Chatroulette <http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=49a53b71bf0a906c148486d84a1d6bdd>
Nick Bilton, New York Times

The latest online phenomenon connects you through webcams to a random, fathomless succession of strangers from across the globe.



MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** Literature's First Unreliable Narrator <http://www.slate.com/id/2244933/>
John Swansburg, Slate Magazine

The unexpected lessons of The Lost Books of the Odyssey.

**** Attack Of The Light Drizzle! <http://feeds.boston.com/click.phdo?i=f7d52521687c229f084c7c272e8df65c>
Robert David Sullivan, Boston Globe

If you’ve started to feel that anticlimaxes have become the norm in Boston, you’re right. But it’s not because something has changed about the weather. It’s that something has changed about its packaging. Weather, especially on TV, has exited the realm of straight news, and even of entertainment, and entered the realm of marketing.

**** The Unnamed By Joshua Ferris <http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theguardian/books/rss/~3/ooU4nVBwm2c/the-unnamed-joshua-ferris>
Tim Adams, The Guardian

What links Joshua Ferris's dazzling debut novel of office politics, Then We Came To The End, with this, his somewhat unnerving second book, is an atmosphere of parable. In each case, though he seems to be presenting a mimetic surface of contemporary life, he constructs original and affecting metaphors for curious truths about the way we live now.



SingaporeSurf
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**** 100元入场税的困境 <http://www.zaobao.com/yl/yl100221_005.shtml>
洪奕婷, 联合早报

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**** Beautiful Buildings And A Tale Of Buried Treasure Under A Bridge: Memories Of Stamford Road <http://thelongnwindingroad.wordpress.com/2010/02/21/beautiful-buildings-and-a-tale-of-buried-treasure-under-a-bridge-memories-of-stamford-road/>
The Long and Winding Road

**** RWS Rather Than Airport <http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_492982.html>
Leonard Lim, Straits Times

Both locations allow them to levy a $3 surcharge on top of the metered fare. But since the casino at Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) opened a week ago, cabbies here find it makes more sense to head there instead of Changi Airport to pick up passengers.

It's time to raise the levy at Changi Airport! Money will solve everything! :-)

**** Trying To Help A Homeless Part I <http://www.asiancorrespondent.com/secret-blog/trying-to-help-a-homeless-part-i>
Liau Chuan Yi and Norvin Chan, Asian Correspondent

**** MDA Releases Film Classification Guidelines To The Public <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1038859/1/.html>
Alicia Wong/Neo Chai Chin, Today

In what is believed to be the first move of its kind, the Media Development Authority (MDA) has released its film classification guidelines to the public, ending years of speculation over how film content is evaluated. The move has been welcomed by industry players - even as they say such openness was "long overdue".